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April 17, 2008
Los Angeles, What Are You Doing?
One hour ago, Eric Richardson of blogdowntown used Twitter, a microblogging text based social network, to tell his readers a fact about streetcar construction while on the streets of Portland. "Portland streetcar track construction went at one block per week, with construction only taking one lane and not the sidewalk," he said while on a Los Angeles delegation to the Pacific Northwest to study the public transit mode. Earlier, he tweeted from the airport, then when he landed and about light rail bike racks.
After tweeting that she was at LAX yesterday morning, blogger Amanda Congdon later used Twitter after landing and said "whenever I'm on the east coast, I miss the west coast. but when I'm on the west coast, I only sometimes miss the east coast."
Yesterday evening, the Los Angeles Fire Department sent out a tweet: "*Structure Fire* 2285 E. Jessie St... Heavy fire and smoke coming from 1 story." It was about the fire in Boyle Heights.
Even LAist feeds a Twitter account. Do to tweet your version of Los Angeles? What are you doing?
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I think the most fun I've had with it so far was when I sat at a meeting (that I was not working for) and added my two cents every two minutes or so. The funniest part was that as soon as I sent over my message, two people in the room rustled with their phones. Afterwards someone wanted to double check that I was actually twittering and not just texting him for the fun of it.
However - I do get a little nervous when people I don't recognize set to be a "follower"
The good far outweighs the paranoia.
And, if you need to know what I said - it is in my archive. It's mostly about how my shoes were killing me, and that I was hungry.
Yeah, I'm pretty wary of followers I have no idea who they are. That said, I often try not to tweet where I'm at unless it's truly a public place.
My fav is to tweet from public meetings and quote government officials. Also, I just started playing with http://twitpic.com/ so I can take photos with my camera phone and e-mail them to twitter. It's pretty amazing to take a photo and have over 50 people potentially looking at it all within a minute.
i effing love twitter.
i'm slow and behind in this whole twittering thing. the term "tweet" is new to my dictionary, but I'm slowly picking it up. kinda fun~
but I don't like to use SMS texting, nor my cell phone have any web access, so I just tweet through my FB account nowadays~
I prefer Tumblr, actually.
Carrie, help me... I don't understand Tumblr.
hm. I think I need to do a post on Tumblr then.
When I did Ironman New Zealand last month, I handed my phone to a friend and had him send race updates to my Twitter account so the family back home could see that I was still alive.
So, not Los Angeles, but what the hell.
actually, Adam Rakunas, Los Angeles has the third-highest rate of Twitter addiction in the U.S., according to Twitterlocal.
So, yes Los Angeles.
If you dig twitter, then you'll LOVE twubble. If you use Twitter, Twubble can look at your existing friends' friends and recommend new people for you to follow. cos you're never out of twubble on twitter anyway